Reuters - In Hollywood, where million-dollar
looks win multimillion-dollar movie contracts, actor Ron
Perlman has become a star not so much because of his looks, but
rather because he looks good wearing a mask.
Reuters - No offense to the
red-skinned, gun-wielding, cigar-chomping demon, but he had to
rely on several real-life heroes before "Hellboy 2: The Golden
Army" could make it to the screen.
Reuters - Walt Disney's imminent release of
two new film versions of "High School Musical" in Mexico and
Argentina marks another expansion in the company's efforts to
produce more localized content for international markets.
AP - Lawyers for Verne Troyer are negotiating with a porn broker and distributor on a settlement to permanently prevent the distribution of a sex tape the actor made with a former girlfriend.
AP - The Screen Actors Guild weighed bargaining strategies Friday after Hollywood producers warned a souring economy could cause them to reconsider their contract offer.
AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Evelyn Keyes, who played Scarlett O'Hara's younger sister Suellen in "Gone With the Wind" and counted director John Huston and bandleader Artie Shaw among her famous husbands, has died. She was 91.
Reuters - A day after their counterproposal
to major studios' "final" contract offer was rebuffed, Screen
Actors Guild leaders huddled on Friday to consider their next
move in a Hollywood labor stalemate almost certain to drag into
next week. -- read full article
AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Screen Actors Guild rejected the latest contract offer from Hollywood studios on Thursday but claimed it was willing to negotiate and presented a counterproposal.
Reuters - Actor Heath Ledger won rave reviews
from Australian critics on Friday for his final performance as
the Joker in the new Batman movie, fuelling speculation of a
rare posthumous Oscar.
Reuters - In Hollywood, even "final offers"
seem to get sequels. The Screen Actors Guild on Thursday
delivered a counter-bid to the contract proposal major studios
had presented the union last week as a take-it-or-leave-it
proposition, and the two sides spent a few hours discussing
their positions before parting company again.
AP - Spike Lee says the Rev. Jesse Jackson's crudely phrased criticism of Barack Obama won't affect the Democrat's campaign, which the filmmaker expects to succeed at bringing "seismic" change to the world.
